Train derailment expected to impact commuting for days

A freight train derailment in Union County is expected to impact traveling around New Jersey by rail for days.

About 20 of the Conrail freight train’s 141 cars derailed Friday afternoon near the Elizabeth Train Station in Union Township.

Officials with the Union County Office of Emergency Management say that the crash left the train tracks along New Jersey Transit’s Raritan Valley line “mangled.”

"The rails look like spaghetti. It's all like twisted and turned, so it's going to have to be replaced. A long line of it because it goes from here, the train station, all the way into Roselle Park,” says Union Township Police Director Dan Zieser.

Service along the line was suspended in both directions between Newark Penn Station and Cranford and also between Raritan and High Bridge. NJ Transit put cross-honoring in effect.

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